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This doesn't sound like a use-case for a Web site to me. How about sending yourself emails, categorised into their own maildir or IMAP folder, or even a brand

This doesn't sound like a use-case for a Web site to me. How about sending yourself emails, categorised into their own maildir or IMAP folder, or even a brand new account? That would inherit security from your email setup (which is monotonically more secure than systems which delegate password resetting to your email account). You can read and write them online or offline using a variety of readers and editors, including some self-hosted browser-based clients (e.g. RoundCube, etc.). You also get a bunch of tooling for free, e.g. for backups (offlineimap, isync, etc.), indexing/searching (e.g. mu), etc.

phyzome 8y ago
I agree, websites are the wrong tool. What I'm envisioning is a desktop or phone app where you author posts and comments and read other people's posts and comments. The information is stored locally, but published out via a dumb server, with end-to-end encryption. Essentially, the server becomes an async dumb pipe (can just use WebDAV for this) or optionally a synchronous dumb pipe (if you add in a streaming protocol for notifications, such as websockets). The software could also push up a static website made of any public posts, I suppose. :-) I feel quite strongly that most users would benefit from their own device being the system of record for their posts, with the server functioning as coordination point and secondarily as an emergency backup. (I'll be posting in more detail about this if you follow my blog's feed.)
- chriswarbo 8y ago
  Ah, when you said "private" I thought you meant something that wouldn't be shared with anyone (e.g. a personal diary). You're right that some other solution would be better for "private but shared" content (although it would likely be tricky w.r.t. both security and psychological/social aspects like getting people to follow good practices to prevent leaks).
  - phyzome 8y ago
    Oops, yes, that was definitely less than clear. :-)

phyzome 8y ago

I agree, websites are the wrong tool. What I'm envisioning is a desktop or phone app where you author posts and comments and read other people's posts and comments. The information is stored locally, but published out via a dumb server, with end-to-end encryption. Essentially, the server becomes an async dumb pipe (can just use WebDAV for this) or optionally a synchronous dumb pipe (if you add in a streaming protocol for notifications, such as websockets). The software could also push up a static website made of any public posts, I suppose. :-) I feel quite strongly that most users would benefit from their own device being the system of record for their posts, with the server functioning as coordination point and secondarily as an emergency backup. (I'll be posting in more detail about this if you follow my blog's feed.)

chriswarbo 8y ago
Ah, when you said "private" I thought you meant something that wouldn't be shared with anyone (e.g. a personal diary). You're right that some other solution would be better for "private but shared" content (although it would likely be tricky w.r.t. both security and psychological/social aspects like getting people to follow good practices to prevent leaks).
- phyzome 8y ago
  Oops, yes, that was definitely less than clear. :-)